In Focus Bound
Algeria’s Finances: 2015 Likely to be a Tough Year
Over the past years Algeria has enjoyed a steady stream of strong revenues. Oil money has been used partly to...
A Story of Gold, Misery and a Territory under Surveillance
Since April 2014, an unprecedented frenzy has taken shape in northern Niger. This state of tension came with the...
Egypt: The Extraordinary Tale of a Wholesale Death Sentence
The Egyptian regime is using some of the most severe tools of punishment to signal its Islamist foes that it means...
Niger’s Mali Border: another Brewing Crisis to Watch
MEA Risk's Critical Incidents Tracker reports that the West African Islamist militant organization MUJAO (Mouvement...
Morocco: the King’s Men Return to Power, Islamists Move to the Backseat
The coalition that formed the Moroccan cabinet since the electoral victory of the Islamist PJD party has been facing a...
Political Crisis in Tunisia: When Irresponsible Politics Kill Jobs
The Tunisian economy has become the victim of the so-called Arab Uprising, which ironically started in Tunisia....
Maghreb’s Small Billionaire Club
According to Forbes, Africa had 1,426 billionaires in 2013. These are mostly business people and may not take into...
The Case for Federalism
The prospect of stability and peace in North Africa, the Sahel and further into the Middle East and Sub-Sahara Africa...